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  • THE SINS/zC-SINF SURVEY OF ...
    Tacchella, S; Lang, P; Carollo, C M; Schreiber, N M Forster; Renzini, A; Shapley, A E; Wuyts, S; Cresci, G; Genzel, R; Lilly, S J

    The Astrophysical journal, 04/2015, Letnik: 802, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    We present the analysis of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) J- and H-band imaging for 29 galaxies on the star-forming main sequence at z ~ 2, which have adaptive optics Very Large Telescope SINFONI integral field spectroscopy from our SINS/zC-SINF program. The SINFONI H alpha data resolve the ongoing star formation and the ionized gas kinematics on scales of 1-2 kpc; the near-IR images trace the galaxies' rest-frame optical morphologies and distributions of stellar mass in old stellar populations at a similar resolution. The global light profiles of most galaxies show disk-like properties well described by a single Sersic profile with n ~ 1, with only ~ 15% requiring a high n > 3 Sersic index, all more massive than 10 super(10) M sub(middot in circle). This is attributed to differences in sample selection and definitions of size and/or mass measurements.